David Cameron 'one of the worst prime ministers in modern history'

The Conservative came third from bottom in the table of post-war leaders but would have been classed as the biggest failure based on rankings for only his second term.
Mr Cameron fared worse than Labour's Gordon Brown, the premier he regularly mocked while opposition leader, in the survey of academics who specialise in politics and contemporary British history.
Nearly nine out of ten said the European Union referendum was his greatest failure, with one claiming it was the greatest defeat of any prime minister "since Lord North lost America".
Only Sir Anthony Eden, whose reputation... read more

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